Principal Supplier Quality Engineer

The role

The Principal Supplier Quality Engineer acts as a senior technical authority embedded in Asia. You will lead technical supplier audits, solve complex quality problems, and work with design teams to ensure production meets standards.

What you will do

• Lead technically rigorous audits of component suppliers across Asia
• Identify real drivers of quality performance at suppliers
• Conduct pre-qualification audits of new suppliers
• Run periodic surveillance audits to verify corrective actions
• Develop and improve audit methodology and assessment criteria
• Own resolution of complex quality issues using first-principles analysis
• Lead rapid on-site analysis for production failures or OQC rejections
• Work with suppliers to improve process controls and measurement systems
• Coach supplier engineering teams in root cause analysis
• Implement and maintain quality assurance specifications at suppliers

Required qualifications

• 15 or more years of experience in supplier quality or manufacturing quality for complex electromechanical hardware
• Deep manufacturing and process engineering knowledge
• Exceptional audit capability
• Strong first-principles thinking
• Experience with QA specification development
• High proficiency in both English and Mandarin (written, verbal, and reading)
• Ability to operate autonomously across a portfolio of suppliers
• Willing to travel regularly across APAC

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline

Benefits

• Personal growth fund

About the company

Halter enables farmers and graziers to run productive and sustainable operations. The company is backed by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners.